The 2011 Spanish Users Group meeting will take place in Madrid on September
22. This meeting will provide Stata users the opportunity to exchange ideas,
experiences, and information on new applications of Stata. Anyone interested
in using Stata is welcome.

This year’s guest speaker will be Alfonso Miranda from the Department of
Quantitative Social Science at the Institute of Education, University of
London. He will give a talk, “Efectos de Tratamiento Endógeno
para Modelos de Datos de Conteo con Participación Endógena
o Selección de Muestra”.

Attending from StataCorp are David Drukker, Director of Econometrics, and
Bill Gould, Head of StataCorp Development. David will give the talk
“Filtrado y Descomposición de Series Temporales”.

Call for presentations

Presentations are welcome on any Stata-related topic, including

user-written Stata programs,

case studies of research or teaching using Stata,

discussion of data-management issues, and

surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields.

The conference will be conducted mostly in Spanish, though papers
will be accepted in both Spanish and English.

Please email the scientific organizers before June 17 if you are
interested in presenting a paper. Submit in the email an abstract (maximum 200
words), along with your name, affiliation, and telephone number. Also
indicate in your email whether you wish to give

a 20-minute talk (followed by a 10-minute discussion) or

a 10-minute talk (followed by a 5-minute discussion).

The scientific committee will make a preliminary selection based on
submitted abstracts by June 30. If your presentation is selected, the final
version should be sent in PowerPoint or as a PDF to the scientific committee
before September 3, 2011. The scientific organizers look forward to
hearing from you with your presentation offers.

The meeting will include the usual “Wishes and grumbles”
session, during which you may air your thoughts to Stata developers. You
also have the choice to attend an informal dinner for an additional cost
(approximately €35) on Thursday evening in Madrid.

Registration

To register, please send an email to
info@timberlakeconsulting.com,
and Timberlake Consulting will email you the registration form that you will
need to fill out and return to them before September 9.

Please travel at your own expense. The meeting cost covers coffee breaks, lunch,
and course material. There will also be an optional dinner at a restaurant
(to be announced) at an additional cost of approximately €35.

Timberlake Consulting S.L. generously sponsors registration fee waivers (only
one fee per presentation, regardless of the number of authors involved).